I’ll tell you where the fish are, Karl!
Specifically, trout are raised at fish farms, what locals call Hatcheries in Montague and Sunderland. To use a buzzword, lefties like nowadays, they are “sustainable.” The trout are then let go into local rivers and streams where they become “free range,” another catch phrase lefties like. Some of the stocked trout become “holdovers” as we fly fisherman like to call them and live for years, for how long I do not know. In addition, there exists vibrant native brook trout that spawn in local streams year after year. Biologists have also identified wild brown trout from the Sherman Reservoir in Vermont that frolic in the upper Deerfield river. They are not “manufactured” as you suggest or produced from 3-D printers.
As for the Connecticut River, to my knowledge, there are no stocked fish in this river. The Atlantic Salmon Restoration Project was stopped a few years ago, along with fish counting. This Class B river now sustains a lively fish population of small and big mouth Bass, Perch, Blue Gill, Carp, Walleye, Pike and many other fish too numerous to name here. Let’s not forget the annual Spring Shad spawning migrations. Most people I see fishing this waterway are in canoes, kayaks, powerboats or trek in from a nearby road.
We all enjoy being “on the river” — the Deerfield (my fave), Green, Cold and others simply getting some exercise, seeing nature and hopefully catching a fish every now and then.
Something you should try.
Perhaps it will help you alleviate some of your anger, alter your pessimistic mood and see the world and nature from a better point of view.
Jim Bates
Greenfield